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ANYONE STUPID ENOUGH to believe Bush's rhetoric about a New World Order would be surprised at his old world politics. The democratic regime is simply too far left and Haiti too small to elicit an impassioned response from Bush. Though not a communist, Aristide is a left-wing priest, steeped in liberation theology, known and adored in the ghetto that is most of Port-au-Prince. (His beautiful little book is called In the Precincts of the Poor...
...addition, tenants charged that landlord Alex Steinbergh, the owner of the properties, lied to the city about property improvements in order to elicit rent increases. In reality, the living conditions of the apartments are "deplorable," protesters said...
...greatest open rivalry was between the politically liberal Anderson and the conservative Jacobsen. Anderson, along with Jenco, tweaked Jacobsen, an Episcopalian, about controversial passages in the Bible, particularly scriptures dealing with homosexuality. Jenco recalls that Jacobsen, in turn, often sabotaged Anderson's attempts to elicit new information from their guards. Jacobsen apparently remains conflicted in his feelings about Anderson. On one occasion he told the British press, "I didn't like him," while on another he told TIME, "I love Terry Anderson." Last week he allowed only that his career as a medical administrator was built around guarding people...
...first, the questions from Reed seem to be off-base, often interrupting the train of the interview and directing it into less fertile ground--a cub reporter's mistakes. But these are not interviews that aim to elicit information from someone as much as they attempt to inform Reed's own ongoing inquiry into political artistry, the confines of his medium and the irresistible urge to create. As such, they succeed, even when the words are nowhere near singing...
...resolution will "elicit ideas from the undergraduate body at large," according to its sponsor, Adam D. Taxin...